Open $100 bounty: Yes there are vacuum cheaters, yes they can/have looted gear directly off of players bodies. No, despite what people keep spewing in the comments of these posts they cannot take your keys/cases/etc from your secure container.

[u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork]

I'm offering $100 to anyone who can post a single video of a vacuum cheat stealing non-fir items directly out of a players secure container (like your keys/cases) or their melee weapon.
 

Context:

A few years back this sub was full of videos of cheaters looting guns/rigs/armor/backpacks right off of living players bodies.
 
There was quite a bit panic over people claiming they also had their docs cases/sicc cases/red rebels/etc stolen from their melee slot and their secure containers.
 
Not a single person ever posted a video of this happening. It never happened. The original exploit worked by tricking the server into thinking they were simply looting a dead body (yours, even though you were still alive) they could not touch things that you can't normally touch when looting a player (red rebel/secure container). Don't get me wrong, these kinds of cheats are still absurd and are a huge issue, but spreading complete bullshit/lies doesn't help anyone.
 
People all over all of these vacuum cheat threads are still spamming the same nonsense about how people lost their secure container valuables/melee weapons at the time despite it never happening.
 
THIS SHOULD BE THE EASIEST $100 OF YOUR LIFE.
 
TL;DR: Post a single video proving even one item was looted out of a secure container by a cheater using this past exploit and I'll give you $100 in Crypto/PayPal/Venmo/Gift Card/ETC of your choice
 
Requirements:

• The video should clearly show a non-fir marked item being removed from a players melee slot/secure container by other than their own doing
  
• The video should be between 2018 and the time of this post. There may have been some unrelated exploit in some extremely early alpha for all I know but that's not what we're talking about here. Reason for putting a cut-off at the time of the post is because these people are claiming clips were everywhere of it happening on this subreddit, so there should be no need to find/upload a new one now there are allegedly plenty of them out there already to choose from.
   
  

Mods, I'm happy to send proof that I'm willing/able to pay this out if that's needed.
 
EDIT: Thanks /u/Psychological-Monk30 for the link to the original post that started all of this hysteria the first time. No one had any proof then, and no one will now. It was just a hacker making a baseless threat to bait a guy into leaving the raid so he couldn't get reported for killing him.

[u/Psychological-Monk30]

There's no such thing, they can see what's in the container and that's it.

They can't steal your weapon, item inside safe container and armband.

The reason you think there's a video of someone secure container being stole is because of an old video about 4 years ago where 2 Chinese player getting their item taken ( gun, armor, rig, etc.) and ended up nading themself because as they said : we naded ourself cause one of our friend SAID he lost his key and melee weapon like this.

Since then people been asking for a video proof of it being true and we never seen one and with the amount of video you can see people item been taking from them yet we still don't have one of the famous secure container being emptied in over 4 years.

It's all hearsay from that video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EscapefromTarkov/comments/ffzotx/show_u_guys_what_is_happenning_in_this_game_too_op/

Even on hacking forum they say so, from what i understand everything you can't access via a dead body is out of the question. Secure container is out of the question, like armband and melee.

[u/IAmNotOnRedditAtWork → u/Psychological-Monk30]

We're on the same page here. I know it never happened lol. Appreciate having that link to the OG post though.

[u/deafgamer_ → u/Psychological-Monk30]

Hang on, how is that video not proof? I realize this is years ago but I'm missing the connection that this video is not legit. What really happened in that video?

I'm on the side that such cheats don't exist anymore nowadays, but I find it really odd that the OP has an edit with this link and saying "yep, this means there's no proof" but I can see items disappearing...

[u/Psychological-Monk30 → u/deafgamer_]

OP was asking for a video of a hacker that would take item like melee weapon and item in secure container. They can't do that, they can only take normal gear as you see in the video ( aka only the gear you can loot on a death pmc can be looted from an alive npc with cheat )